This press photograph shows Amanda Ida Harmon Watkins, known as the "Wheat Queen of the World," seated in an automobile in her wheat field. She built an empire by buying acres of land in southwest Kansas in Finney and Haskell counties, and turning them into wheat fields. In 1926, Ida had planted and harvested 1,950 acres more than any farmer in the area. The Associated Press dubbed her the "Wheat Queen of the World." By 1932, Ida was farming between 3,500 to 5,000 acres of land. Ida was passionate about farming so much that, in 1932, she testified before the Shannon Committee regarding the government's interference in agriculture. Ida stated that she did not want amendments or an investigation of the Federal Farm Board what she wanted was to "kick the devil out of the farm board." On November 24, 1961, Amanda Ida Harmon Watkins passed away at the age of ninety in Garden City, Kansas.

Date: July 31, 1930